TY - BOOK AU - Pushkin,Aleksandr Sergeevich AU - Twitchell,H. TI - The Queen Of Spades AV - PG PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction KW - Gambling -- Fiction KW - Russian fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_of_Spades_(story); Release date is 2007-10-17; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Queen Of Spades" by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin is a novella published in 1834. Hermann, a Russian army officer, becomes obsessed with learning the secret of three winning cards from an elderly countess. His greed leads him to terrorize the old woman, causing her death. When her ghost appears to reveal the secret cards, Hermann risks everything at the gambling table—but the final card brings an unexpected and devastating surprise that shatters his mind. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23058 ER -